Earthquake in North Korea caused by explosion

Carter, who served as the 39th USA president, visited North Korea in 1994 to meet Kim Il Sung toward facilitating negotiations with the Clinton administration at a time when tensions were high between Pyongyang and Washington.

"The public at home and overseas that had hoped for success and good results from the second. summit in Hanoi are feeling regretful, blaming the USA for the summit that ended without an agreement", its Rodong Sinmun newspaper said.

And with its work at the Sohae site, Pyongyang may be the first to take such steps after images taken Wednesday showed that a rail-mounted structure to transfer rockets to the launchpad there appeared to have been completed and "may now be operational", the North Korea-watching website 38 North said, citing commercial satellite imagery used to track construction that they said began before the Hanoi summit.

"The area that we fell most short was on denuclearisation and it was clear to us that our North Korean interlocutors had very little authority to move on the set of issues that were, in our view, central to the success of this outcome", the official said.

The president's decision to leave without even a vague agreement was especially notable in light of his boasting about his personal relationship with Kim. Responding to a question on the collapse of the talks in Hanoi, the official said the negotiations with the North Koreans in the run-up to the summit were very productive. South Korea, meanwhile, favors building harmonious relations, including bringing the Korean War to an official end and expanding North-South ties.

A few days later satellite imagery surfaced conveniently, showing unspecified "activity" at Sohae satellite launching site, which North Korea began to dismantle past year.

South Korean calls for partial sanctions relief to encourage nuclear disarmament steps by North Korea has caused disagreements with Washington, which does not want to give up what it sees as its main leverage with the North.

Kim released his first public message since the Hanoi summit earlier this week, instructing propaganda officials to conduct "positive information" activities to spur scientific and technological development, according to the state media outlet KCNA. It cited Kim as saying North Korea and the U.S. must put an end to their decades-long animosity and confrontation.

Meanwhile, a USA -based think tank has said it appears the North is rebuilding its ballistic missile test facility, which it had partially dismantled.

South Korea's weather agency says a small natural disaster detected in North Korea was likely caused by a mining operation.

North Korea has frozen nuclear and missile testing since 2017, and Trump has pointed to this as a positive outcome from almost a year of high-level engagement with North Korea.

He said it was impossible to know if North Korea was preparing a military missile or a space rocket.

The official, who did not want to be identified, said the USA side still saw North Korea's complete denuclearization as achievable within Trump's current term, which ends in January 2021.

Asked if the two sides had reached an agreed-upon definition, the official said they "have the elements of one".

With no deal between the two nations looking likely, the U.S. delegation left early - later insisting further talks could be thrashed out. He added that North Korea was continuing to enrich uranium, an ingredient of nuclear warheads.

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